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L. J. WILSON. WASHING MACHINE,

No. 487,107. Patented Nov. 29. 1892.

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LUOINDIA JANE IVILSON, OF HARDY, TEXAS.

WASHING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 48?,107, dated November 29, 1892.

Application filed August 16, 1892. serial No. 443,212. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LUOINDIA JANE WIL- SON, of Hardy, in the county of Montague and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Washing-Machines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use it, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in washing-machines; and it consists in the peculiar novel features of construction and in the arrangement of parts which will be fully described hereinafter, and more especially referred to in the claim.

The object of my invention is to provide an improved machine of the type known as agitator-machines, in which the clothes are placed in a tub or receptacle and cleansed by being moved about and rubbed therein through the medium of an agitator.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved machine, a portion of one side being broken away. Fig. 2 is a vertical cross-sectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is a detached view of the agitator.

The tub A, which is supported on legs B of suitable height, is provided with a false slatted bottom 0, which supports the clothes in an elevated position in the tub. By constructing the bottom in the form of a V, as shown, the water when being removed is drawn to a common point and thus easily drained out. The inner side and end walls of the tub are preferably provided with the strips D, which are notched at intervals, as shown. The notches of one strip are arranged in line with the projections of the adjacent strip, so

that a thoroughly-rough surface is presented to the clothes being operated upon. A hinged cover E is provided forinclosing the tub, and formed in the center thereofis the opening F, in which is pivoted between its ends the agitator G. The lower end of the agitator is enlarged, as shown, and extending edgewise through this end is the looped portion H, which is doubled and bent down on each side as far as the lower end of the agitator. Arranged beneath this looped portion and extending transverselythrough the agitator G is the wire I, doubled on each side of the agitator G. This last-described wire portion is preferably formed, as shown, extending outward from the agitator G at right angles and then turned down abruptly parallel with the lower end of the stick G. By this construction a space is inclosed by the wire, in which clothes may become deposited and while thus held subjected to a thorough rubbing and the dirt thus most effectually removed.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination of a tub, a pivoted agitator depending thereinto, the latter being formed with an enlarged lower end, a wire extending edgewise through the said end and having its ends doubled and bent downward, and a second wire extending at right angles to the first-named wire and which extends outward at opposite sides of and at right angles to the agitator and finally bent down parallel therewith, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I afiilx my signature in presence of two witnesses.

LUGINDIA JANE WILSON. Witnesses:

G. W. SAWYER, B. M. BELL. 

